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How Insight and Love Reinforce One Another

Duration: 36 minutes

Shinzen gives guidelines for the practice of virya (the quality of intensity or energy). He discusses how Vipassana practice and loving kindness practice are intimately linked and in the end are the same practice. As Vipassana practice gradually dissolves the accumulated poison and pain of a lifetime, one gets insights and experiences purification, then it is very easy to generate states of friendliness or loving kindness. Also includes what you can expect to experience after you leave a retreat.

How Insight and Love Reinforce One Another

How to Manifest Singleness

Duration: 77 minutes

How Buddhism came into China; story of Bodhidharma; God Keeps Pitching and You Always Get Another Chance at Bat; Six Sense Gates Give Way to Expansion and Contraction and Ultimate Cessation; the Power of Emptiness; Sourcing; Intro-Description of Body Sensation, Qualities of Internal Talk and Image; the Beauty of Fully Manifesting a Self; Description of Categories: Talk, Image, Feel; Working with Tunes.

How to Manifest Singleness

How to Work with Dynamic Qualities

Duration: 49 minutes

Once a sensation is covered with mindfulness and equanimity one can become aware of its dynamic qualities. Shinzen outlines a strategy for & watching and yielding to the movement and non-movement qualities of body sensation which sets the stage for the purification of consciousness.

In Praise of Confusion

Overcoming Three Seemingly Insurmountable Obstacles to Enlightenment

Duration: 54 minutes

Shinzen discusses some obstacles & challenges on the meditative path, such as ‘the more I practice, the worse it gets; I’m not worthy; it’s all one, so I’m not doing or feeling anything; education of the no-self and no longer needing to make an objective of the self or world – ever’.

Overcoming Three Seemingly Insurmountable Obstacles to Enlightenment

Six Paramitas

Duration: 54 minutes

The paramitas are practices that can be mastered to transport you to enlightenment. They are generosity, morality, patience, energy, concentration and wisdom. ‘Paramita’ in Sanskirt means both perfection and reaching the other shore.